Key: F5

Tuning: Standard EADGBe


Intro: Drumbeats


Verse 1:
F5                           D5
  Let's call this the quiet city
Where screams are felt 
              Bb5
as a wave of stoplights
                   C5
Drive through the streets as 
                       F5
gunshots punctuate the night
             D5
The sides we take divide 
        Bb5
us from our faith
        C5
And the morning dove gets 
                        D5
caught in the telephone wire
  F5                D5
Asleep you set the fire 
   Bb5   C5   D5   F5
in your own house
And the night was 
  D5         Bb5
a knife that cut
    C5
And I'm para--


Chorus 1:
  D5
--lyzed
Bb5            D5
Cross out the eyes
Bb5           D5
Blur all the lines
Bb5           C5
Tearing this canvas
         D5
from the wall
   Bb5              D5
We crossed out the eyes
    Bb5                  D5
Put lines through these cries
   Bb5             C5
We pulled all the leaves 
                    D5
from the trees that fall
(your trees that fall
your trees that fall
your trees that fall
your trees that fall)


Verse 2:
F5
  A silent dance that we 
D5                     Bb5
did into this hospital bed
                         D5
Hear voices from another room
                    F5
"It happens all the time"
                     D5
but you leave in the sand
              Bb5
the leaves fallen
                      C5
counting down days to live
Drain the blood 
               F5    Bb5 
from this valentine!
        D5
"We can rise on the 
         Bb5
wings of the dove
          D5
See blue skies getting caught 
                          F5   Bb5
in the trail of all this smoke
       D5
We can rise like candles in 
Bb5
the dark-yours always"
C5
  and an envelope marked with 
           D5
your new address
  F5                D5
Asleep you set the fire 
   Bb5   C5   D5   F5
in your own house
And the night was 
  D5         Bb5
a knife that cut
    C5
And I'm para--


Chorus 2:
  D5
--lyzed
Bb5            D5
Cross out the eyes
Bb5           D5
Blur all the lines
Bb5           C5
Tearing this canvas
         D5
from the wall
   Bb5              D5
We crossed out the eyes
    Bb5                  D5
Put lines through these cries
   Bb5             C5
We pulled all the leaves 
                    D5
from the trees that fall


Bridge:
Bb5
(Cross out the eyes!)
(Blur all the lines!)
C5
(Cries!)
(Repeat)


D5 (hold)


Interlude:
A5
  your cries!!


Verse 3:
A5
  It was the first 
time face to face
I'm crossing the line
Talking to the other 
side of death
Hearing the words that choke 
memories into flatlines
I'm calling your name 
hoping for something 
to wash these dreams 
of you away
         D5  Bb5 D5 Bb5 D5 Bb5 C5 --
(till we die!)
     D5  Bb5      D5     Bb5 D5 Bb5 C5 --
(memories in flatlines!)


Chorus 3:
D5 Bb5            D5
   Cross out the eyes when 
    Bb5       D5   Bb5 C5   
you said all these    lies
D5 Bb5            D5
   Cross out the eyes when 
    Bb5       D5   Bb5 C5    G5
you said all these    lies


Outro:
F5
Fence was blown down in a 
                      G5
winter storm and this field
(cross out the eyes!)
 D5
Stretches out of this 
               G5
world into the sound
( A5 trace of!)
F5
What can we do put a stop to 
                 G5
the coming white days
(In a love song!)
    D5
I'm hoping for something to wash 
                     C5 (hold)
these dreams of you away
(Stretches out of this world
Lets drive back the dead
Stretches out of this world
Stretches out of this world)